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Trimble County

The Trimble County Emergency Search Unit wants to help make all homes and buildings safer places to work and live. We have partnered with Alert Works to offer safety devices that will help protect you and your family from Severe Weather Disasters and House Fires. The County Emergency Search Unit is pleased to offer all area citizens the opportunity to purchase an Emergency Alert Weather Radio delivered to your home for a special discounted price. Receive advanced warning for over 65 Emergency Threats such as Tornadoes, flash flood, Amber Alert and chemical spills.

If you woke up to a fire in your home, how much time do you think you would have to get to safety? According to the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association, one-third of Americans households who made and estimate they thought they would have at least 6 minutes before a fire in their home would become life threatening. Unfortunately, the time available is often less.

The congregants of the Milton United Methodist Church will celebrate the 180th anniversary of the congregation during the morning worship service at 10:30 a.m. this Sunday, Oct. 7.

Bro. Jack Couch will give the morning message at the celebration. Several members will be honored for their past and current service to the church. A pitch-in meal will be served at the conclusion of the service.

At 4 p.m., Monday, Milton and Bedford Fire Departments responded to the report of a field fire on Riverview Drive on the Milton hilltop. The fire was located in a field east of the Milton Fire Station No. 1 and west of Moffett Cemetery.

Firefighters arriving on the scene found a large cornfield on fire. The fire quickly spread to around 40 acres of the cornfield, from which the crop had recently been harvested.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a two-month extension for emergency grazing on Conservation Reserve Program acres, freeing up forage and feed for farmers looking to recover from this challenging time of being impacted by the drought.